This East Midlands Inside Out programme for BBC looks at homelessness (primarily in the shape of rought sleeping) and empty homes, featuring Paul Palmer and Carole Thompson from the empty homes practitioner world. Both aspects of the progamme are interesting,…
Francis of LB Croydon is our South West London rep on the Executive and a star speaker at our Conference a couple of years back. Now he is going for the big time with appearances in the BBC1 series The Housing Enforcers. The link is to Episode 12 (Tuesday,…
This is a news report of the Bristol case where Camelot guardians have now been found to be tenants not licensees. The report is not completely reliable, but it is what many of the public will see. The report summarises a blog post by Giles Peaker (see below)…
See also the full report accessible via our library here.
The model of community investment proposed here could work for empty homes in some areas, but might be more dependent on an effective community/council partnership to ensure improvements in the public realm.
According to another recent story, Brighton has an astonishing 144 rough sleepers. The Council is exploring the use of its own empty commercial properties too: see here.
The very brief Ashurst summary highlights strong measures taken by Valencia (in Spain) to tackle properties being repossessed by lenders (as far as we can tell). There seems to be an obligation to keep the property occupied: this also protects owners faced…
Some not-very-good reasons for not using empties alongside the sensible comments. There are of course areas of low demand, but very, very few where an holistic solution woul not work in bringing empties back into use and providing much needed housing.
This is a social investment vehicle which is sourcing homes for people who are homeless or vulnerable to homelessness. There are obvious ways in which this kind of venture can support the purchase of empty properties.
A detailed and interesting account on the Daily Mail website.
Hard to believe that there were not better options involving community-led housing.
Helen Williams is the boss, but Lynne Leach is the queen.
